The Role of Skylore in the Imperial Cosmovision of the Incas
摘要
In the preceding chapter and in the Introduction, I emphasized several times the thematic limits of the present work, which go hand in hand with the scarcity and insufficiency of the available sources. However, even for such a rigorously restricted analysis, the factual basis is sometimes incomplete and deficient; this is precisely the case for data concerning the cosmovision developed by the elite of the Inca priests within the imperial magical-religious system.